Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 14.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 07:38:22 +0100
From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: 17.012 gray literature
Apropos Willard's longish posting, there seem to be lots of graey areas
here (when you check online OED for "grey areas" you'll find a 1963 British
report on semi-slumish urban areas in need of rebuilding [between healthy
and terminal]!). "Gray/grey" designates that which is inbetween, if only we
could determine what lies on either side. Maybe this works in a black and
white situation ("grayscale"), but we seem to have lots of colorful shades
inbetween.
Bob
Willard wrote:
> While I accept Charles Faulhaber's definition of gray literature in
> Humanist 17.009 in the terms in which it was given, I wonder if it would
> not be helpful to look beyond the immediate institutional classification. I
> would suppose that gray literature does not always coincide with that which
> is "privately published" -- a volume of poetry, say, produced by
> letterpress and given to friends of the poet-printer; a samizdat
> publication; a serious work of scholarship put online by the author because
> he or she cannot get it published commercially. These things, it seems to
> me, differ rather significantly from a research report issued by a
> laboratory so that its preliminary work may be distributed to colleagues.
> In the former case, the work is the final form; it is the thing itself, not
> a preliminary or interim version. ... [etc.]
-- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html
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